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Prof. Kai Gehring

@kaigehring

Economist at Uni Bern and WA, love to travel, sports fan, curious about everything science and fantasy, father of two great kids

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But would still be a lot. And should you give more tickets for Referee reports done well?

04.03.2026 08:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

👩‍⚖️🇬🇧 / 👨‍⚖️🇺🇸 :

20.02.2026 09:41 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Very happy to have this out after very intense 3 years work with my coauthor
@paulschaudt.bsky.social
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Turns out it took me "only" me roughly 15 years in academia to finally join the club and publish in a Top 5 journal. Lot of randomness in the process, but still happy after all the hard work :)

19.02.2026 11:13 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict* Abstract. We provide quasi-experimental evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate drought-induced co

Recently accepted by #QJE: “Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict,” by Gehring (@kaigehring.bsky.social) and Schaudt (@paulschaudt.bskz.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

11.02.2026 22:16 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
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Mein Beitrag „Bösewichte gehen viral“ ist draussen. Warum politische Narrative sich besonders stark verbreiten und was das für Erwartungen und Entscheidungen bedeutet. PNG mit den Seiten im Anhang. #Narrative #Wirtschaftspolitik
Ganze Ausgabe mit vielen weiteren Beiträgen: www.ifo.de/DocDL/sd-202...

19.02.2026 11:04 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Very happy to have this out after very intense 3 years work with my coauthor
@paulschaudt.bsky.social
.

Turns out it took me "only" me roughly 15 years in academia to finally join the club and publish in a Top 5 journal. Lot of randomness in the process, but still happy after all the hard work :)

19.02.2026 11:13 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

Will share more info about the paper and a blog article soon, for now can only recommend to read if you are interested in applied, market oriented solutions to climate change and development problems in settings with low state and fiscal capacity

19.02.2026 11:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@clemensfuest.bsky.social @cesifo.org @wyssacademy.bsky.social @juliegwen.bsky.social

19.02.2026 11:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mein Beitrag „Bösewichte gehen viral“ ist draussen. Warum politische Narrative sich besonders stark verbreiten und was das für Erwartungen und Entscheidungen bedeutet. PNG mit den Seiten im Anhang. #Narrative #Wirtschaftspolitik
Ganze Ausgabe mit vielen weiteren Beiträgen: www.ifo.de/DocDL/sd-202...

19.02.2026 11:04 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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My colleague Kyle made the most amazing workaround to making in class quizzes

1. write quiz in typst with correct answers in the outline
2. typst compiles to a pdf with bubbles and QR Code that has hashed answer key
3. students take quiz using bubbles
4. Scan pdfs of quiz

...cont

08.02.2026 03:58 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Alle kommen und gehen.

Delegationen, Diplomaten, hochrangige Gäste.
Sie betrachten die Ruinen des Heizkraftwerks, nicken, geben Erklärungen ab.

40 Diplomaten, der NATO-Generalsekretär.
Fotos, Kameras, Mitgefühl.
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07.02.2026 21:36 👍 112 🔁 39 💬 7 📌 1
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President Zelensky said SBU operations, including actions by the Alpha unit, are ongoing and new missions are being planned that are changing the course of the war. He also highlighted the role of sanctions. #Ukraine

28.01.2026 18:19 👍 273 🔁 40 💬 2 📌 0
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❗️All 27 EU member states have now agreed to move forward with listing Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist organization, according WSJ journalist Laurence Norman. AFP reported that France has reversed its position and will support the designation, clearing the final obstacle to unanimity. #Iran

28.01.2026 18:26 👍 331 🔁 62 💬 6 📌 11
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After reaching the semifinals of the Australian Open,Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina spoke about the importance of the strong support she has received from Ukrainians

Svitolina said that it's a great feeling for her to bring "little light"to Ukrainians,who endure the harshest winter of war

28.01.2026 17:08 👍 330 🔁 53 💬 4 📌 0
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France, Spain signal support to blacklist Iran's Revolutionary Guard Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could soon be designated as a terrorist organisation in the European Union after France and Spain, the two key hold-outs, signalled a change of mind. #EuropeNe...

🚨 Big news: France confirms it will support the designation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation.

Since France was the key holdout, unanimity is closer than ever before. Will it happen tomorrow?

28.01.2026 18:29 👍 40 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1
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Syrian President al-Sharaa has once again arrived in Moscow for talks with Putin. This is al-Sharaa's second official visit to Moscow since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime at the end of 2024. The first meeting between the Syrian president and Putin took place on October 15, 2025.

28.01.2026 19:33 👍 106 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 0
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💥😎 "We are destroying three enemy battalions every day today. This is not enough, we need to destroy many times more of the enemy," — Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces Robert "Magyar" Brody at the "Army of Drones 2025" event.

28.01.2026 20:06 👍 438 🔁 78 💬 10 📌 6
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"She was crying and screaming, 'Mom!'"

Radio Liberty war correspondent Marian Kushnir rescued a 4-yr-old girl from a burning residential building hit by a Russian drone in Bilohorodka, Kyiv region

The girl’s mom was killed.

28.01.2026 11:24 👍 445 🔁 151 💬 11 📌 9

TikTok has been under new leadership for like a day and I made a slideshow with posts from the ICE rally today and it immediately got out under review and is not being published. Incredible.

26.01.2026 03:15 👍 2780 🔁 758 💬 97 📌 91

A reminder that one of the new owners of TikTok is Larry Ellison who also now owns CBS News…

26.01.2026 04:16 👍 358 🔁 173 💬 11 📌 6
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Odds of a mining bonanza in Greenland are abysmally low
• Getting mine running in Arctic can cost 2-3 times as much as equivalent project at lower latitudes
• Island’s two big rare-earth projects have been plagued by difficulties and have yet to start operations
www.economist.com/briefing/202...

26.01.2026 08:01 👍 132 🔁 56 💬 6 📌 8
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Serbia’s president Vučić says Ukraine joining the EU from January 1, 2027 is part of a peace plan to end the war. He said the plan would bind not only Ukraine and Russia but much of the international community, and that EU rules would be changed despite opposition from several member states #Ukraine

26.01.2026 08:18 👍 196 🔁 28 💬 11 📌 2
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Chernihiv& Nizhyn were left without electricity due to Russian strikes.

There has been no power supply in the cities since 6 a.m. Hospitals,water utilities,other critical infrastructure facilities have been switched to generators.

📹 Suspilne

25.01.2026 20:50 👍 289 🔁 76 💬 3 📌 2
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Ukrainian tennis player Oleksandra Oliynykova spoke out at Australian Open,asking for support for🇺🇦:

Last night I spent in Ukraine before the trip here,here was an explosion just near my home&a Shahed drone hit the home just across the road.My apartment was literally shaking because of the explosion

20.01.2026 12:52 👍 381 🔁 89 💬 6 📌 1

I haven’t had electricity for over 48 hours; it just returned, and I’m afraid to turn anything on because it feels like it could turn off any second. Still no heating.

21.01.2026 07:07 👍 78 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0

That is why economists often say we need to be cautious about survey answers without any real stakes…not that incentives always solve these issues, but it can help. Together with asking better questions.

21.01.2026 07:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ways to join a defence alliance 

The question was: ‘How do you think Switzerland's neutrality should be interpreted? I would like neutrality to be interpreted in such a way that Switzerland can join a defence alliance such as NATO if the threat increases.’

Möglichkeiten, einem Verteidigungsbündnis beizutreten Die Frage lautete: «Wie soll die Neutralität der Schweiz Ihrer Meinung nach ausgelegt werden? Ich möchte, dass die Neutralität so ausgelegtwird, dass die Schweiz einem Verteidigungsbündnis wie der Nato beitreten kann, wenn die Bedrohung zunimmt.»

Ways to join a defence alliance The question was: ‘How do you think Switzerland's neutrality should be interpreted? I would like neutrality to be interpreted in such a way that Switzerland can join a defence alliance such as NATO if the threat increases.’ Möglichkeiten, einem Verteidigungsbündnis beizutreten Die Frage lautete: «Wie soll die Neutralität der Schweiz Ihrer Meinung nach ausgelegt werden? Ich möchte, dass die Neutralität so ausgelegtwird, dass die Schweiz einem Verteidigungsbündnis wie der Nato beitreten kann, wenn die Bedrohung zunimmt.»

Ok, this made me chuckle.
58% of Swiss say: “I would like neutrality to be interpreted in such a way that Switzerland can join a defence alliance such as NATO if the threat increases.”

Which is a hilarious question & position as joining NATO is the end of neutrality.

21.01.2026 07:13 👍 558 🔁 118 💬 44 📌 17

NORWAY PM: I HAVE REPEATEDLY CLEARLY EXPLAINED TO TRUMP THAT IT IS AN INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE THAT AWARDS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

19.01.2026 09:50 👍 2003 🔁 310 💬 72 📌 153

This problem might very well soon find its solution

www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...

19.01.2026 20:28 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

I’m reading warnings about a massive russian attack,
with the goal of a total blackout in Kyiv for several days.

We’ve been advised to charge all devices.
I will. I will… when we have electricity 🙈

19.01.2026 20:32 👍 525 🔁 91 💬 38 📌 6